Using Concepts in Medieval History
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Using Concepts in Medieval History

Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500

Herausgegeben: Armstrong, Jackson W.; Crooks, Peter; Ruddick, Andrea
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This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is 'feudalism', whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown...